Elon Musk is wrong about Radio Free Europe
The termination of US government funding for the two venerable radio stations Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL)…
What Labour can learn from the glory days of British Rail
The Department for Transport has just launched an eight-week consultation to determine the shape of its much-vaunted Great British Railways…
Why Hungary owes a special debt to Jimmy Carter
President Jimmy Carter, who died earlier this week, has been praised for his humanitarian instincts. Not for nothing did he…
Were the wild Sixties really wild?
I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free…
Will Angela Rayner really water down the right-to-buy scheme?
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner is said to be planning on watering down the right-to-buy scheme which enables council tenants to…
What would Reagan make of Trump?
If the Donald Trump-JD Vance ticket is successful in November and the pair head to the White House, there is…
How Viktor Orbán plans to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
Hungary has just begun its presidency of the Council of the EU, as part of the member states’ six-monthly rotation…
Patience is running out with Nato in the Baltic states
You can’t miss the vast banner emblazoned on the high-rise building overlooking central Vilnius. It reads: PUTIN, THE HAGUE IS…
The quandary of being half-Jewish
I was in my early twenties when I found out that I’m half-Jewish. Until then, as far as I was…
Is Viktor Orbán really anti-Semitic?
Much of the criticism directed at Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s long-serving populist prime minister, is richly deserved. Orbán poses as the…
The remarkable story of my mother, the heroine of the Holocaust
I’ve always loathed Russia: its regime, its remnants of enduring Stalin-worship, its rulers’ century of malign influence on the world.…
